Shields has just as little standup as Hughes, a basically equivalent bottom game, and I don't think he's a significantly better wrestler. He has a better top game than Hughes but against GSP that's basically irrelevant.

i personally regard shields' bjj overall as "pretty awesome", with an especially great mount control.

Originally Posted by Fighting Cephalopod

Silva and Marquardt and Franklin are all roughly equivalent in size, but Hendo walks around at 195 which is significantly smaller.

To be fair, if Miller really had that choke Shields had enough time to go to sleep several times over.

i stand by my assessment that for most of that time, miller was struggling for position/trying to really get it in. i don't believe it was until really close to the end of the round that miller got his elbow under shields' chin, and by that time, shields was desperately looking at the clock.
also, i don't recall miller having his other arm behind shields' neck for extra leverage, but i could be wrong.